Missouri: Police Link Dead Teenager to Gunfire

St. Louis police officials said on Tuesday that Vonderrit D. Myers Jr., the black teenager who was fatally shot by a white off-duty police officer on Oct. 8, had gunshot residue on his hands, jeans and T-shirt, supporting the officer’s assertion that Mr. Myers had shot at him. The officer, who has not been identified, was patrolling the Shaw neighborhood for a private security firm and encountered Mr. Myers. Police had previously said that Mr. Myers shot at the officer at least three times, a claim that was disputed by Mr. Myers’s family, who said he was holding a sandwich, not a gun, when he was shot. His death revived protests in the St. Louis area that began in August after the killing of Michael Brown, the unarmed teenager who was shot by a police officer in nearby Ferguson.

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